Vonnegut: a complete paper
Eddie Trapasso March 7, 2002 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was an unusual man with an unusual point of view and that's what made him such a great writer. Vonnegut is very talented and used his talents in many amazing ways. He is a writer of science fiction, drama, plays, comedy, social commentary, as well as being an artist and orator. Vonnegut's brilliant novels and short stories won him a huge fan following that started in the 1950's and is still going strong today. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was born on November 11, 1922 in Indianapolis, Indiana to Kurt and Edith Vonnegut. Kurt was the third of three children and was a fourth generation German American. (Magill's Survey Of American Literature 2009). Kurt's father and Grandfather were both prosperous architects. Kurt's father was very prominent in the German section of Indianapolis. Kurt and his family suffered during the great depression. They were shaken by the Anti-German feelings moving throughout Indianapolis (Current Biography 429). Kurt's father, along with being a prosperous architect, was a brewer and was hit especially hard during prohibition. (Vinson 420). With no homes or buildings to build, and no alcohol to brew the Von
For my examination I would like to put the primary focus on Slaughterhouse-Five because enjoyed it very much, and had a much better grasp of the novel via study aides, than I did in Breakfast of Champions, which was, though easy to read, rather convoluted. In only one year, Kurt became so successful that he had made enough money writing to quit his job at GE and move his family to West Barnstable, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod. Kurt Vonnegut has an interesting idea of what to do, as is shown in his novel, Slaughterhouse-Five. Some might argue that the ultimate critic is the reader. On May 14, 1944, while Kurt was serving in Europe, his mother overdosed on sleeping pills and committed suicide. He had written dozens of short stories, worked as an English teacher for handicapped children, ran a car dealership, watched both his father and sister die, and adopted his sister's three children, as well as raise his own children (Lustbager). Sadly, he remained in this state until his death in 1957. That's not to say that Vonnegut hasn't enjoyed critical acclaim. Kurt was taken prisoner and sent to Dresden, Germany, which was a beautiful industrial city that had been untouched by the war (430). Likewise, every time someone dies another is born. I am not certain whether or not I liked him overall but I have to give the man credit. Another reason Vonnegut was so pleasing to young people is that his fiction "shares many elements of watching television"(501). Again and again we see "So it goes. His two biggest works of the decade were Hocus Pocus (1990) and Timequake (1997)(Lustbager).
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